Danielle Orchard’s paintings interpret the “anxiety around intimacy”

Andrea Nakhla paints her friends' "existential anxiety"

Artist Kimia Ferdowsi Kline explores love and intimacy

Gabriella Boyd’s paintings capture fleeting moments of intimacy

Felicia Chiao’s illustrated characters visualise the looming presence of our intimate anxieties

Florian Joahn’s photographs bridge the erotic and surreal

Molly Bounds paints intimate moments of quiet contemplation

Olivia Sterling paints nostalgia-filled pieces to deconstruct complex issues of othering

The surreal and hypnotic photography of Utah-based artist Daniel Everett

Intimate, safe and romantic: Ekaterina Popova paints the interiors of her friend’s bedrooms

Illustrator Marie Jacotey on depicting emotions we daren’t talk about

Soufiane Ababri on using intimacy as a means of analysing a social construction in his brand new book

María Jesús Contreras’ illustrations are here to help make anxiety pangs more manageable